Cutting Meals on Wheels? Really? (2014, laws, constitutional, welfare)

[thefragile]

Originally Posted by Quick Enough

I love reading how all the libs are getting their panties in a wad!

This is the Presidents budget PROPOSAL which goes NOWHERE.

Just like Obama's who didn't get 1 single vote in favor form congress.

Not EVEN 1 dem voted FOR his proposals.

Then why are you getting your panties in a bunch? Hilarious!

[GotHereQuickAsICould]

Originally Posted by Tyster

The Community Development Block Grant is a slush fund that is redundant with lots of other programs.
...

CDBG funds are matched with local funds and oversight on community development projects such as rehabbing housing, converting school buildings, constructing public improvements (water, sewer, paving, sidewalks...), constructing and maintaining neighborhood centers, preservation and and restoration of historic properties in low-income neighborhoods...

While it makes sense to the let the locals figure out what they need the money for most and are best able to keep a close eye on the costs, what often happens is politics.

Sadly.

[burdell]

Originally Posted by workingclasshero

amtrak is a money pit

So is the F-35, and I have a lot better chance of Amtrak taking me somewhere I want to go than an F-35 doing so.

[workingclasshero]

Originally Posted by burdell

So is the F-35, and I have a lot better chance of Amtrak taking me somewhere I want to go than an F-35 doing so.

agree..have said for a long time, why are we going for another fighter

f-35 is another money pit


but we have congress critters still pushing these money pits

[WMak70]

Originally Posted by dothetwist

He is a mean small-minded greedy little man.

You are absolutely correct. He is in there for the richies, and could care less about regular people. They have no idea who they voted in yet.

[burdell]

Originally Posted by InformedConsent

That's my point. Over and over and over again, we hear how the Fed Gov should do and pay for "this" and "that" from the left. Rarely, if ever, do any of them admit that they themselves have dropped the ball and suggest that they, their friends, and their community members should be donating/volunteering more to help meet their neighbors' needs. /SMH

And what do you have to say about the right telling us over and over and over again that we should increase military spending despite already having the most expensive military in the world? What makes the DoD sacrosanct when it comes to watching its budget?

[burdell]

Originally Posted by workingclasshero

agree..have said for a long time, why are we going for another fighter

f-35 is another money pit


but we have congress critters still pushing these money pits

Or lobbyists with bushels of $$$ buying congress critters.

[burdell]

Originally Posted by InformedConsent

Clapper, himself, testifying to Congress...

"My fingerprints were on that national intelligence estimate, I was in the community then. That was 13 years ago. We have done many, many things to improve our processes, particularly with respect to national intelligence estimates, in order to prevent that from happening again. Whatever else you want to say about the intelligence community, it is a learning organization, and we do try to learn lessons.

It's a very difficult business and getting harder all the time. And there will be mistakes, but what we do try to do, as we did after the NIE from October 2002 and weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, was to learn from that, profit and make change."

CNN.com - Transcripts

What I always found odd was that even after Clapper f'ed up on the assessment that Iraq had WMDs in 2002 when he was the Director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (the satellite image intelligence agency), Obama then promoted him to be his Director of National Intelligence.

'Fingerprints on' and 'in the community' don't exactly make him sound as if he was the main player in that debacle.

[hound 109]

Originally Posted by workingclasshero

amtrak is a money pit

Agreed. Cut the Federal Funding to -0-. Let it operate as a business.

[burdell]

This whole scenario makes it seem as if the plan is to suck as many nickels and dimes as possible from programs that benefit average Americans and then throw Benjamins at that five-sided building near Washington.